ページの画像
PDF
ePub

You have receiv'd your griefs: nor are they fuch

That these great tow'rs, trophies, and fchools fhould fall For private faults in them.

2 Sen. Nor are they living

Who were the motives that you first went out:
Shame, that they wanted cunning, in excess

Hath broke their hearts. March on, oh noble Lord,
Into our city with thy banners spread;

By decimation and a tithed death,

(If thy revenges hunger for that food

Which nature loaths) take thou the deftin'd tenth. a
I Sen. 9'We all have not offended:
For those that were, it is not fquare to take,
On thofe that are, revenge: crimes, like to lands,
Are not inherited. Then, dear countryman,
Bring in thy ranks, but leave without thy rage;
Spare thy Athenian cradle, and those kin
Which in the blufter of thy wrath must fall
With those that have offended; like a fhepherd,
Approach the fold, and cull th' infected forth,
But kill not all together.

2 Sen. What thou wilt

Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy fmile,
Than hew to't with thy fword.

I Sen. Set but thy foot

Against our rampir'd gates, and they fhall ope:
So thou wilt fend thy gentle heart before,
To fay thou'lt enter friendly.

2 Sen. Throw thy glove,

Or any token of thine honour elfe,

That thou wilt ufe the wars as thy redress,
And not as our confufion: all thy powers

Shall make their harbour in our town, 'till we
Have feal'd thy full defire.

[blocks in formation]

take thou the deftin'd tenth,

And by the hazard of the spotted die,

Let die the fpotted.

1 Sen. We all have, &c.

Alc.

Alc. Then there's my glove;
Defcend and open your uncharged ports,
Thofe enemies of Timon, and mine own,
Whom you yourfelves fhall fet out for reproof,
Fall, and no more; and to atone your fears
With my more noble meaning, not a man
Shall pafs his quarter, or offend the stream
Of regular juftice in your city's bounds,
But fhall be remedied by publick laws
At heaviest answer.

Both. 'Tis moft nobly spoken.
Alc. Defcend, and keep your words.

Enter a Soldier.

Sold. My noble General, Timon is dead,
Entomb'd upon the very hem o' th' fea,
And on his grave-ftone this infculpture, which
With wax I brought away; whofe foft impreffion
Interpreteth for my poor ignorance.

[Alcibiades reads the epitaph.]

Here lies a wretched coarse, of wretched foul bereft:
Seek not my name: a plague confume you caitiff's left!
Here lye I Timon, who all living men did hate,
Pafs by, and curfe thy fill, but fiay not here thy gate.

These well express in thee thy latter spirits :
Tho' thou abhorr'dft in us our human griefs,
Scorn'dft our 'brine's flow, and thofe our droplets which
From niggard nature fall; yet rich conceit

Taught thee to make vaft Neptune weep for aye

3

On thy low grave our faults-forgiv'n, fince dead`
Is noble Timon, of whofe memory

Hereafter more.Bring me into your city,
And I will ufe the olive with my fword;

Make war breed peace; make peace ftint war; make each
Prescribe to other, as each other's leach,

Let our drums ftrike..

[Exeunt. CORIO

1 Timon's, z brains 3 grave.-On: faults forgiven. - Dead

CORIOLANUS.

VOL. V.

F

D RA

CAIUS Martius Coriolanus, a noble Roman, bated by the common People:

}

Titus Lartius, Generals against the Volfcians, and
Cominius,
friends to Coriolanus.
Menenius Agrippa, Friend to Coriolanus.

Sicinius Velutus, Tribunes of the People, and enemies to
Junius Brutus, S Coriolanus.

Tullus Aufidius, General of the Volfcians.

Lieutenant to Aufidius.

Young Martius, Son to Coriolanus.

Confpirators with Aufidius.

Volumnia, Mother to Coriolanus.
Virgilia, Wife to Coriolanus.

Valeria, Friend to Virgilia.

Roman and Volfcian Senators, Ediles, Litors, Soldiers, Common People, Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants.

The SCENE is partly in Rome and partly in the Territory of the Volfcians, and Antiates.

The whole Hiftory exactly follow'd, and many of the principal fpeeches copy'd from the life of Coriolanus in Plutarch.

POPE.

CORIO

« 前へ次へ »